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Y’all, is my boss a scumbag?

I’m a teacher and I always take time to get to know every student individually. Take all of them aside, and just ask how they’re doing, see what’s going on in their life, and how I can support them. One student mentioned to me about how she was moving, and it came up that her parents were divorced. Me with reality that her dad lost custody of her due to child abuse. He was charged with child abuse, not because he was physically abusive, but because he got a DUI with her in the car. I mentioned this during a staff meeting with other teacher for my great. Later, the principal took me aside. He told me to make sure I share this information with the counselor, which made sense. However, he told me to do this, so that “we can make sure that we are covered” which hit me…


I’m a teacher and I always take time to get to know every student individually. Take all of them aside, and just ask how they’re doing, see what’s going on in their life, and how I can support them. One student mentioned to me about how she was moving, and it came up that her parents were divorced. Me with reality that her dad lost custody of her due to child abuse. He was charged with child abuse, not because he was physically abusive, but because he got a DUI with her in the car. I mentioned this during a staff meeting with other teacher for my great. Later, the principal took me aside. He told me to make sure I share this information with the counselor, which made sense. However, he told me to do this, so that “we can make sure that we are covered” which hit me wrong. , The principal thought that my student was being physically abused. However, if you thought this, why was his reason for wanting me to share it, so that the school can be covered, rather than so that we can help with the child. I feel like that shows an insane level of apathy and lack of care. I would buy this for a while, but am I looking at this the wrong way?

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